Booting, Changing Login Aso ..

oook, here I am, and I have many question for which I didn't find any answers right yet. So I hope that you can provide me with some very "basic" stuff:

I've installed SuSE 9.1 Prof. many times right now - just to get a feeling about installing it on SATA, ATA, IDE and SCSI-Systems. The CPU is an intel p4/1.5GHz with 512 RAMBUS and one Adaptec 19160 and one Adaptec 2940 SCSI-Controller. (I have two SCSI-controllers because of the fun configuring them during installation .. geez, it was really fun, the installation did it automatically..)

First question:
I've set up my Linux autoloading with KDE. Now, this ist some kinda really fine - I like KDE, but now I want to start my computer in text-based mode. What do I need to do, that my Linux starts only in text-based-mode (shell)?

Second question:
I've gone through many HOW-TO's, forums etc. and tried to find some valueable information about the startup-scripts of Linux. Especially for the SuSE 9.1 Startup-scripts, because they seem to be a little bit .. "other". right? - Do you have a link for me to look at? (I'm now familiar with the boot-step's, and which type of programm will be started when etc.. - But I do not know where to configure these things.) - I'm familiar with Netware from Novell, so I know how to edit files, to write scripts aso.. - but I need some kind of "solid" information for Linux.

That's it. Nothing else more or less
- I already got in touch with the "mc" - "the midnightcommander" which does a great job for me and which provides me with a good, well known text-editor.

Maybe someone can answer my questions!?
Thank you,
Backbone

To manage the boot scripts, use yast and loog for the Runlevel Editor.

ok, thx for your answer - I'll try that!

To boot into text based mode - change id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault: in the file /etc/inittab.

linux:/ # cat etc/inittab
#
# /etc/inittab
#
# Copyright © 1996-2002 SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany. All rights reserved.
#
# Author: Florian La Roche, 1996
# Please send feedback to http://www.suse.de/feedback
#
# This is the main configuration file of /sbin/init, which
# is executed by the kernel on startup. It describes what
# scripts are used for the different run-levels.
#
# All scripts for runlevel changes are in /etc/init.d/.
#
# This file may be modified by SuSEconfig unless CHECK_INITTAB
# in /etc/sysconfig/suseconfig is set to "no"
#

# The default runlevel is defined here
id:5:initdefault:

# First script to be executed, if not booting in emergency (-B) mode
si::bootwait:/etc/init.d/boot

# /etc/init.d/rc takes care of runlevel handling
#
# runlevel 0 is System halt (Do not use this for initdefault!)
# runlevel 1 is Single user mode
# runlevel 2 is Local multiuser without remote network (e.g. NFS)
# runlevel 3 is Full multiuser with network
# runlevel 4 is Not used
# runlevel 5 is Full multiuser with network and xdm
# runlevel 6 is System reboot (Do not use this for initdefault!)
#

aye, that helps a lot, thx!

Soo, now I have a Samba-share up and running (it was a little bit tricky to configure this share for public use only ... but I did it. - I searched the internet up and down for helpfull config-files, but most of this files did not work)

Then I started with the Apache-Server. And now I have a new question about the user- and service-authentification. (It's a general question)

It's hard for me to understand how everything is connected to the user-accounts like FTP or NOBODY aso.

My first time I was confronted with this "user-service-accounts", was configuring Samba. As far as I understand now, Samba NEEDS at least one user for public-shares to be writable. It does not work with NOBODY. - Now I use the FTP user and it works. Is this the right way? (public share, read- and writable for everyone without any user-authentification)

I've already started to configure the Apache2 server. It seems, that this server needs an extra user too, right?

I'll go through all the configuring-data on myself, but would be happy, if someone can provide me with some basic, easy to read links about user-administration and the dependencies to the various services (programs). Somehow it looks like that this ist the key to everything...

Sort of along this same topic... I don't see any entry of tty7 (the default X terminal in runlevel 5) in inittab on my SuSE 9.1 box. Is that somewhere else or am I just missing it?